Which is why you want to try to do year over year comparison. And doing that, WoT has definitely seen a population drop. Not perhaps as catastrophic as some claim, though.

Others have claimed that the year over year drop was there, but small, before 9.18 when it picked up, was paused briefly by 1.0, but has returned to post 9.18 levels. I can neither comfirm not deny this, as I've not looked at the numbers closely enough myself to say.

Which is why you want to try to do year over year comparison. And doing that, WoT has definitely seen a population drop. Not perhaps as catastrophic as some claim, though.

Others have claimed that the year over year drop was there, but small, before 9.18 when it picked up, was paused briefly by 1.0, but has returned to post 9.18 levels. I can neither comfirm not deny this, as I've not looked at the numbers closely enough myself to say.